system tray win32

Ok you guys I'm a first time poster so be gentle (also I'm not sure how you react to people asking for help)  I'm trying to write a win32 application in C and I'm trying to get it the application to minimize to the system tray.

I looked up some on line tutorials and it seemed simple enough.  Simply add the icon to the system tray then hide the window, unfortunately when I hide the window the icon disappears too.  I'm finding it hard to isolate the issue with my code, has anyone here successfully made a system tray icon using the windows api?

Actually it's not that I don't like the thread, it's just that a) I don't have anything of real value to add, and I want to be discreet or b) bumping it might make more important/interesting threads less visible.

Sage is a complex matter.